Patents by Inventor Yaming Lin
Yaming Lin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240320417Abstract: Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for annotating a collection of media items, such as digital images. According to some embodiments, an annotation system automatically determines one or more annotations for a plurality of media content items, and generates a collection of media content items that associates the determined annotations with the plurality of media content items. Depending on the embodiment, annotations that may be determined for the plurality of media content (and associated with the collection for the media content items) can include, without limitation, a caption, a geographic location, a category, a novelty measurement, an event, and a highlight media content item representing the collection.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Wisam Dakka, Donald Giovannini, Andre Madeira, Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi, Yaming Lin, Yan Wu, Ranveer Kunal, Aymeric Damien, Maryam Daneshi, Yi Liu
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Publication number: 20240281478Abstract: Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that improve media content search functionality and curation of media content. For instance, various embodiments described in this document provide features that can present media content items in the form of dynamic collection of media content items upon a user typing into a search bar. In another instance, various embodiments described herein improve media content search functionality by ranking user facing search features using input signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: Snap Inc.Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Wisam Dakka, Donald Giovannini, Andre Madeira, Andrei Damian, Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi, Yaming Lin, Ranveer Kunal, Congxing Cai, Robson Araujo, Guilherme Fernandes, Jungho Ahn
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Patent number: 12056441Abstract: Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for annotating a collection of media items, such as digital images. According to some embodiments, an annotation system automatically determines one or more annotations for a plurality of media content items, and generates a collection of media content items that associates the determined annotations with the plurality of media content items. Depending on the embodiment, annotations that may be determined for the plurality of media content (and associated with the collection for the media content items) can include, without limitation, a caption, a geographic location, a category, a novelty measurement, an event, and a highlight media content item representing the collection.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Wisam Dakka, Donald Giovannini, Andre Madeira, Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi, Yaming Lin, Yan Wu, Ranveer Kunal, Aymeric Damien, Maryam Daneshi, Yi Liu
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Patent number: 12050654Abstract: Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that improve media content search functionality and curation of media content. For instance, various embodiments described in this document provide features that can present media content items in the form of dynamic collection of media content items upon a user typing into a search bar. In another instance, various embodiments described herein improve media content search functionality by ranking user facing search features using input signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Wisam Dakka, Donald Giovannini, Andre Madeira, Andrei Damian, Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi, Yaming Lin, Ranveer Kunal, Congxing Cai, Robson Araujo, Guilherme Fernandes, Jungho Ahn
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Patent number: 11860959Abstract: Systems and methods for ranking a feed in a social network. The systems and methods include operations for displaying a feed includes identifying a group of users associated with a first user, identifying a plurality of content generated by one or more of the group of users, determining one or more actions that may result when each of the plurality of content is presented to the first user, ranking the content based on the one or more determined actions, and displaying the content to the first user according to the ranking.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Sheldon Chang, Yaming Lin, Andre Madeira, Jeremy Voss
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Publication number: 20230342404Abstract: Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that improve media content search functionality and curation of media content. For instance, various embodiments described in this document provide features that can present media content items in the form of dynamic collection of media content items upon a user typing into a search bar. In another instance, various embodiments described herein improve media content search functionality by ranking user facing search features using input signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Wisam Dakka, Donald Giovannini, Andre Madeira, Andrei Damian, Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi, Yaming Lin, Ranveer Kunal, Congxing Cai, Robson Araujo, Guilherme Fernandes, Jungho Ahn
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Patent number: 11720640Abstract: Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that improve media content search functionality and curation of media content. For instance, various embodiments described in this document provide features that can present media content items in the form of dynamic collection of media content items upon a user typing into a search bar. In another instance, various embodiments described herein improve media content search functionality by ranking user facing search features using input signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Wisam Dakka, Donald Giovannini, Andre Madeira, Andrei Damian, Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi, Yaming Lin, Ranveer Kunal, Congxing Cai, Robson Araujo, Guilherme Fernandes, Jungho Ahn
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Publication number: 20220114221Abstract: Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that improve media content search functionality and curation of media content. For instance, various embodiments described in this document provide features that can present media content items in the form of dynamic collection of media content items upon a user typing into a search bar. In another instance, various embodiments described herein improve media content search functionality by ranking user facing search features using input signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Wisam Dakka, Donald Giovannini, Andre Madeira, Andei Damian, Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi, Yaming Lin, Ranveer Kunal, Congxing Cai, Robson Araujo, Guilherme Fernandes, Jungho Ahn
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Patent number: 11250075Abstract: Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that improve media content search functionality and curation of media content. For instance, various embodiments described in this document provide features that can present media content items in the form of dynamic collection of media content items upon a user typing into a search bar. In another instance, various embodiments described herein improve media content search functionality by ranking user facing search features using input signals.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Wisam Dakka, Donald Giovannini, Andre Madeira, Andrei Damian, Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi, Yaming Lin, Ranveer Kunal, Congxing Cai, Robson Araujo, Guilherme Fernandes, Jungho Ahn
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Publication number: 20220004703Abstract: Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for annotating a collection of media items, such as digital images. According to some embodiments, an annotation system automatically determines one or more annotations for a plurality of media content items, and generates a collection of media content items that associates the determined annotations with the plurality of media content items. Depending on the embodiment, annotations that may be determined for the plurality of media content (and associated with the collection for the media content items) can include, without limitation, a caption, a geographic location, a category, a novelty measurement, an event, and a highlight media content item representing the collection.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Wisam Dakka, Donald Giovannini, Andre Madeira, Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi, Yaming Lin, Yan Wu, Ranveer Kunal, Aymeric Damien, Maryam Daneshi, Yi Liu
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Patent number: 11163941Abstract: Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for annotating a collection of media items, such as digital images. According to some embodiments, an annotation system automatically determines one or more annotations for a plurality of media content items, and generates a collection of media content items that associates the determined annotations with the plurality of media content items. Depending on the embodiment, annotations that may be determined for the plurality of media content (and associated with the collection for the media content items) can include, without limitation, a caption, a geographic location, a category, a novelty measurement, an event, and a highlight media content item representing the collection.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Wisam Dakka, Donald Giovannini, Andre Madeira, Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi, Yaming Lin, Yan Wu, Ranveer Kunal, Aymeric Damien, Maryam Daneshi, Yi Liu